Giuliano Montaldo
Also Known As: Elio Montesti, Giuliano Monteldo
Biography: Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theatre, he became the Assistant Director of Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Tiro Al piccione, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extraconiugale. With his second movie, Una Bella Grinta, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965, a film about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: February 22, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 05, 2023
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The Caiman
Overview: Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-02-23
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Noi c'eravamo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-10-26
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Ennio
Overview: A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-02-17
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High School
Overview: It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during those years of school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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Abandoned
Overview: A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-07
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One Hour Only
Overview: Rome, the 1960s. A young couple speed through the city toward the sea in a brand new Fiat 500. Yearning to make love for the first time, they play their favorite song as they undress and overcome their biggest fears.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-09-14
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Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Overview: italian documentary
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-02-19
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The Most Wonderful Moment
Overview: Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for the upcoming childbirth
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-21
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Raccontare Venezia
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-08-31
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Tonino
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-12-28
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The Legal Death
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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The Doll that Took the Town
Overview: A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Overview: To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema. The singular artistic vision of Sergio Leone has transcended national borders, creating the Spaghetti Western genre and transforming the international cinematic panorama forever with his innovative stylistic and narrative solutions, which have now become part of the language of the movies. The film, which is enriched with precious archive footage from the Cineteca di Bologna, including rare audio recordings and film clips shot behind the scenes, sees for the first time the direct participation of the Leone family and has interviews both with Leone’s longtime collaborators and with icons of Hollywood who have been profoundly influenced by his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
Overview: Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he decided to do cinema after leaving a screening of "Paisa" by Roberto Rossellini. The future filmmaker was then in Paris, a year after a war during which he became one of the main figures of the Italian resistance and one of the founders of the Youth Front. Leaving his status as a war hero behind him, Pontecorvo made his directorial debut with "Giovanna", a short film heralding a cinematic career dedicated to what he himself calls the "dictatorship of truth."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-10-11
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Un eroe borghese
Overview: An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-03
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Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-11-10
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The Years of Lost Images
Overview: A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year he won the Golden Lion with Family Diary, and 1982, the year of his death, he directed only four features. The documentary features interviews with close collaborators (celebrated screenwriters Enrico Medioli and Nicola Badalucco) and some of his actors (Jacques Perrin and Claudia Cardinale).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-07-12
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Voi siete qui
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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Flaiano: il meglio è passato
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-04-01
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Chronicle of Poor Lovers
Overview: Florence, Italy, 1925, during the fascist dictatorship. In order to live near his girlfriend Bianca, young Mario moves to a humble street in the old city center, where he befriends Maciste and Ugo, two anti-fascists.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Attention! Bandits!
Overview: During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile, there's a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to suppress it violently. The factory becomes the scene of fighting between the Germans and the partisans but the latter, aided by the workers, will be able to get the better.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-10
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Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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Everything You Want
Overview: An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their daily walks, the two banter and become friends, and Alessandro quickly learns more about this forgotten poet as the old man’s memory drifts. After learning a secret from Giorgio’s past, Alessandro and his friends work to uncover the mystery of this tale, an unexpected history lesson and a touching coming-of-age adventure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-05-11
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La cieca di Sorrento
Overview: A small girl goes blind when her mother is murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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L'abbiamo fatta grossa
Overview: Yuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted in his inability to remember his lines. Arturo Merlino is a shabby “investigator” who chases cats escaped from their homes. When Arturo and Yuri cross paths, Yuri is under the mistaken impression that Arturo is a consummate professional. He contracts Arturo to follow his ex-wife in order to find proof of her infidelity. But when he accidentally comes into the possession of a mysterious suitcase containing 1 million Euro, a series of hilarious troubles and daring adventures will result in an unpredictable finale…
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-01-28
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Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Overview: Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-12
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The Long Silence
Overview: Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal and political powers in Italy. She is surrounded by terror and threats.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-03-19
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Overview: How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Overview: The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-06-14
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Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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At the Edge of the City
Overview: Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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The Haunting of Helena
Overview: After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious closet and a buried secret. After the loss of Helena’s first baby tooth, a chilling obsession begins and an apparition haunts her sleep...
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-14
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Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Overview: Documentary about Sergio Leone
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-08
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Celluloide
Overview: June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Western all'italiana
Overview: "Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcasting of a selection of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns". In the course of the video, the birth, evolution and conclusion of the Italian western trend is told.
Genres: Documentary Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Assassin
Overview: Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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Vera & Giuliano
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Overview: A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-before-seen footage, highlighting his artistic journey and political activism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-09-23
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Il segreto di Otello
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-02-05
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The Girls of San Frediano
Overview: Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing to anyone, but in the end who wants to grasp all lose all.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-11
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